Quotes About Consequences

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.

I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.

Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.

You've seen too many movies. If you're holding a gun and you shoot a defenseless man, then you're a poor creature, a dastardly person. That's a perfectly ridiculous idea, you realize. The fact that you're holding the gun and the other man is not is no accident. It's a product of everything you've achieved, it assumes that if you're . . . you're aware enough, you have the gun when you need it.

A criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart.

You have to know you can take a human life before you ever put on a police uniform.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Had Chamberlain and the Europeans stood up to Hitler in 1938, rather than appeasing him, World War II might have been prevented and the death of 405,399 Americans might have been avoided.

Why were men such fools, that they created the very hurts for themselves that they most feared?

If the farmer should make a mistake and sow thistle seed instead of wheat, the soil-doesn't say to him, My friend, you have made a mistake. You have been sowing thistle seed instead of wheat, so we will change the law, so that you may get what you thought you were going to get. No, the soil will always give us a harvest like our sowing. If we sow thistle seed it will be just as faithful in producing thistles as it will in producing wheat or cabbages or potatoes.

Every time we do wrong, every time we depart from the truth, every time we commit a dishonest, unworthy act, do a mean, contemptible thing, we lessen the Omnipotent grip upon us, and then we become a prey to all sorts of fears, apprehensions, dreads, and doubts.

woe to him who stops to tie his shoestring?

The punishment for bad manners is as certain as the punishment for crime. By common consent, society banishes the bad-mannered.

No human being can possibly injure another without injuring himself more. He cannot do wrong without paying for it in corresponding suffering.

Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.' Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters. Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.